"NOT A GOOD ROAD IN PROVINCE"
Automobile Association Criticism "MOST OBSOLETE" Oriticism of the rotuis in Hawke's Bay was voiced last night by the president of the Automobile Association (Hawke's Bay), Mr J. H. Edmundson. He expressed the opinion that there was not a good road in the province. At the meeting the chief patrol officer, Mr M. O. Lock said that the Puketitiri and Taihape roads were in a very much corrugated condition, srnd that the Maraekakaho road was the worst of all "There is not a good road in the Hawke's Bay county," he concluded. ...» "I will go further,'' said Mr Edmiundson. "The roads in the whole of the Hawke's Bay province are the worst between Napier and Wellington they are most obsolete. There i0 00 design about a lot of them — there is no proper super-elevation at the curves or anything." Members mentioned that the xnain highway between Tangoio and Tutira was being maintained very well. Mr Edmundson presided over Messrs J. E. Gleadow, H. L. Benjamin, G. E. Tyler, D. P. Ronberg, J. E. Peaeh, O. O. Sorrell. R. Kay, B. Mathieson, A. Dysart and Dr. W. D. FitzGerald.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 152, 15 July 1937, Page 4
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